Gabrielle, Mariah, and I started out our day with a not-so-easy pilates class at the university gym. Finished with our class, sweaty, and excited for the day, we set out on an adventure to a butterfly garden.
The butterfly garden is a small oasis of nature tucked into the city of San José. Covered by a series of large nets, the butterfly garden is a safe haven for some of Costa Rica's beautiful butterflies.
Identifying the butterflies online is proving to be pretty tricky.... The names for the butterflies in the captions are what I think they should be called.
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| Black and White Cookie Butterfly |
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Owl Butterfly
(That's the real name)
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Owl butterflies are the butterflies that have bright iridescent blue between their wings. They're really pretty, but had to capture in a picture.
They're so pretty!! I wish a butterfly would lick me! Although that tongue is pretty intimidating... haha. I'm glad you made a new friend and got to interact with all the butterflies!
ReplyDeleteGreat post! That butterfly must have needed some "rock chalk" !
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Gorgeous pictures, Syd! They look surreal; too incredibly colorful and fragile. Great names for them.....easier to remember than the boring scientific option:). It seems that almost any encounter of the third kind, as long as it's positive, from butterflies to turtles or whales, is uplifting in a special way. I don't think we have so many tropical varieties in our butterfly pavilion that we've been to north of Denver! What a wonderful memory you've made!!
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Dad